In theory, yes.

In practice, most if not all banks in The Netherlands killed their NFC payment module and suggest the use of Apple/Google services instead. I assume this is the same for most smaller countries and banks.

TIL not every country uses NFC for contactless payments.

FYI, metadata of any of those payments are routed through Apple or Google systems. Use a physical card (with or without NFC) instead if you don’t want this.

Last year, many things I once doubted would happen, happened in the USA.

I don’t know what to say. Have you ever done the maths on this?

Adding a third dimension to travel introduces a lot of additional intersections. Once the initial supply and demand wobble irons out, air travel will lead to additional traffic, not less.

It’s a bad idea. And we haven’t even mentioned air and sound pollution yet.

Agreed. If anyone knows about an EU (or allies) search engine with a business model that’s not strictly based on advertising (topped up by grants perhaps), let us know.

I use Ecosia/Qwant for now.

I doubt it. “Back to business” in Iran means back to what? Old regime with new Ayotollah? They have replacements lined up. Israel and USA probably have attacks lined up as well.

Without new leadership on the other hand, I doubt the IRGC will just drop their weapons in a matter of days.

I’d start preparing for a few scenarios: home, Switzerland, elsewhere. Do you know whether the embassy can be of any help?

The difference being that in the one of those cases you still need to open a browser instance before you are able to browse the web.

Does anybody have examples of popular programming languages that are not targeted to English?

I need to know the context.

Wow I did not expect to see actual ads. The answers could just be commercially manipulative instead.

There are some concerns but yes, development generally accelerates: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03156

To be fair, their reduced focus and the potential pace improvement through LLM assisted coding might cancel each other out. I wouldn’t be surprized if the resulting pace change is net zero or better.

That said: I like Firefox local translations, but haven’t found a use case for its other AI features yet.

People use layovers as well, usually doesn’t require a visa. Final destination of the ticket as a backup if the layover location doesn’t work out. Based on your resume and ambitions, there might be betted ways though (expat programs etc).

Good luck to those currently in the USA.

Call of Duty 2, Call of Duty 4